HELP PRESERVE THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE

Newsletter of the Greece Historical Society &Museum

595 Long Pond Road, P.O. Box 16249, Rochester, NY 14616-0249, http://historicalsociety.greeceny.org

May 2008 Volume 29, Number 3

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Issued Bi-Monthly Telephone: 585-225-7221

OFFICERS:..........................................PRESIDENT:

Bill Sauers

VICE PRESIDENT:

Wendy Peeck

TREASURER

Keith Kroon

SECRETARY:

Roberta Young

EXEC. DIR.:

Lorraine Beane

DIRECTORS:

Phyllis BrownJames Butts

William CoePaula KoernerJoan KorschKeith KroonAlan MuellerWendy PeeckBill SauersCynthia ShevlinJack WallenhorstViola WhiteRoberta Young

HONORARY Dir.

Donald Newcomb

COMMITTEE CHAIRS:.....................BLDG. & HOUSE:

NEEDED

GIFT SHOP:

Wendy Peeck

MEMBERSHIP

Bernie Wallenhorst

MUSEUM:

Phyllis Brown

HISTORIAN OFFICE

Alan Mueller

COMPUTER:

Jack Wallenhorst

TOURS:

Kathy Firkins

NEWSLETTER…

EDITORS:

Edie & Bill Coe

MAILING:

Betty Fetter

PLANNING:

NEEDED

PUBLICITY:

Bill Sauers

PROGRAMS:

Bill SauersLorraine Beane

INSIDE:

Annual MeetingLighthouses

President’s Message

From Desk of Exec. Dir.Docent Luncheon

Gift Shop Offerings

Bloomin’ Good Plant Sale

Quilts Draw CrowdGreece Olympia 50 yrs.Under Tent in JuneEditor to Retire2008-2009 Schedule

Business MembersStrawberry FestivalMembership Form

Bring Family & VisitorsTo See Greece Museum

PleaseConsiderUpgrading YourMembership

MAY PRESENTATION

MAY MEETING

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AT THE GREECE TOWN HALL

7:00 p.m., TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2008

ANNUAL MEETING and ELECTION OF DIRECTORSPresident Bill Sauers

will conduct a short Annual Meeting. Most importantly, you are

needed to vote on the Board’s election slate of Directors to elect those who will guide us

next season. Please put it on your calendar now. The Nominating Committee (Chair

JimButts)

, report to the Board is presented here as the slate for your consideration. These arefor three-year terms and five are to be elected. The officers are elected by the Board.

SANDY PECK, WILLIAM SAUERS*CYNTHIA SHEVLIN*, LEE STRAUSS, JACK WALLENHORST*

*Incumbent members of the Board of Directors

In accordance with the bylaws, no nominations will be accepted from the floor.

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ALSO TO BE PRESENTED

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FROM THE BEGINNING: THE LIGHTHOUSES OF THEPORT OF ROCHESTER?

By:

Fred Amato

, President of theCharlotte Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society

Fred Amato

will discuss the different Light Stations inCharlotte starting in 1792 when two butternut trees on the sand

bars were the first ‘lighthouses’ for the Port

of the Genesee. Thecurrent Charlotte Genesee Lighthouse Tower (1822) would beconsidered the second light station in Charlotte. Fred will show a Power Pointpresentation of other light stations as they were built on the Charlotte Pier at the mouthof the Genesee River from 1822 to the current light station on the pier, which was built in1995.

VISITORS ARE WELCOME EVERY SUNDAY FROM 2:00 UNTIL 4:30 p.m.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS TO JOIN YOU AT THESE ENTERTAINING AND EDUCATIONAL PRESENTATIONSAT REGULAR MEETINGS, AN ADMISSION DONATION OF $1.00 IS APPRECIATED FROM NON-MEMBERS

SERVING GREECE FOR OVER 35 YEARS

The Corinthian

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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

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MEMBERSHIP SUPPORT NEEDED:

ur mission is to “help

preserve the past for

the future”; and for

over 35 years dozens of non-paid volunteers have beendoing just that while owningand operating a 5,000 squarefoot Town museum.Unfortunately, even with an un-paid staff, itstill takes money. Just like your own homes,

there’s heat, insurance, and general

maintenance; and this year we need a new roof!Many of our grants and additional funds wereceive are based on the community supportthrough memberships and attendance at ourmuseum and various programs. Most everyonereceiving this newsletter lends their financialsupport through their membership and for thiswe are grateful.Please take a moment to check the date on youraddress label. If the date has passed, pleaseconsider renewing your membership. If you arereading this and are not a member, considerbecoming a member. We are the onlyorganization in the Town of Greece dedicatedto the preservation of your history. Help uspreserve that history for you and futuregenerations. A membership application isavailable on the last page of this newsletter.

Bill Sauers,

President

From the Desk of the Executive Director

It seems as if spring has reallysprung. Gardening plans arein the works. The LakeviewGarden Club is planning torenovate the rose garden infront of the Exhibit Hall. Thecupola garden out by our bigsign will be replanted bythree Boy Scouts. The Thyme in the GardenGarden

Club will continue their stewardship of therose garden behind the house. The ShorewoodGarden Club continues to monitor the fabulousflower display in front of the fireplace chimney.

Because of a grant from Wal-Mart on West RidgeRoad, our old parking lot will be recovered andstriped after 15 years of use. This is the third yearof this grant and we are very grateful to Wal-Mart.

Included in this newsletter are important socialdates! Please mark your calendars now and

enjoy the fun! We’ll see you soon, I hope.

Please read the column i

n the “

GreecePost

” called the “Historical Notebook.” It

appears

monthly and it gives me a space to talk about history.

Call 225-7221 if you would like to help oradvise us.

Lorraine Beane, Executive Director

DOCENT LUNCHEON

The MuseumCuratorialCommittee willhold their annualDocentRecognitionLuncheon onMonday, May19, 2008, at theGreece Historical Center at 12 noon. This is theday that we thank all our docents for theirdedication and the time spent at the Museum. Thedocents are the informed people who guide thevisitors through the exhibits on Sunday afternoonsand at other special tours.The after-luncheon program will be a talk andslide-

show presentation on “Rochester –

Way toWealth

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Counterfeiting” by

Gerard Muhl

, Past-President of the Rochester NumismaticAssociation.The luncheon will be prepared by the MuseumCuratorial Committee. Reservations are due toPhyllis Brown by May 12.

GIFT SHOP OFFERINGS

Keep an eye on our Museum Gift Shop as it offersa variety of clearance items at greatly reducedprices during the Plant Sale and the StrawberryFestival. Also, we have local history books; booksby local authors; Greece tee-shirts, sweatshirts &mugs; tapestry throws depicting historic GreeceBuildings; cookbooks; and a variety of unique one-of-a-kind items. New this year - Jacob's Ladder -the toy that needs no battery. Or, the perfect gift - aGift Certificate to the Museum Gift Shop. Stop inand check us out Sundays 2:00-4:30 p.m.The regular

Gift Shop

hours are

Sundays from2:00 to 4:30 p.m.

Call

585-225-7221

for anappointment for any other times.From the Gift Shop,

Wendy Peeck

Bloomin' Good Plant Sale

SATURDAY, MAY 17, 20089:00 A.M. to Noon

(or until all plants are sold, whichever comes first)

Five Greece Garden Clubs -

Lakeview,Shorewood, Thyme In The Garden,Wildwood, and Woodside

- will hold theirEighth AnnualPlant Sale onSaturday, May17

. It will be heldon the grounds ofthe GreeceHistoricalMuseum, 595Long Pond Road,Greece. Perennials, annuals, dahlias,hostas, houseplants, and garden relateditems will be for sale from 9:00 a.m. untilnoon (or until sold out

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whichever comesfirst), rain or shine. In event of severeweather, the sale will be postponed untilSunday.

The GHS Donut Shop and GiftShop will be open. The Gift Shop will be

offering a big clearance sale you won’t

want to miss!

Photos Courtesy of Bill Sauers & Bill Coe

QUILT EXHIBIT DRAWSAN ENTHUSIASTIC CROWD

We can’t say thank you too many times to

the generous quilters who made our exhibit thesuccess that it is. The quilts are varied and colorful,and reflect not only the skill, but the artistic use of fabric to tell a story. They are:

Sally Dickerson Merrilee Mac WilliamAl Mac William Ana WemesSue Bryant Faye ColeJanice Adanski Beth MitchellSue Sauers Debbie HaskinsVi White Ginny Robinson

Thanks, too, to our quilt lovers who loaned us theirquilts:

Alan Mueller, Bill & Edie Coe,

and

LeeStrauss

.Our oldest quilts were a Log Cabin Patternquilt from a family in Brockport dated 1865, aSignature quilt date about 1850-60, and a Crazyquilt dated 1903. The women of the Parma-GreeceCongregational church in West Greece (calledHooksik), which was abandoned in 1890, addedtheir signature to the square they quilted.Traditional patterns were the well lovedTexas Star, Dresden Plate, Log Cabin, Tumbling

Blocks, Grandmother’s Flower Garden, Bridal

Bouquet, Court House Steps, Bow Tie, etc.One special quilt has a history behind itthat is important to all GHS members. An earlymember of the Greece Historical Society was

Annie Foos

, whose home was a cobblestone houseon Mill Road, which is still occupied by her family.She passed away in 1997 at the age of 99. Hergenerosity was shown in the time and financialsupport that she gave to the Society. Her quilt andher framed story were displayed. Her family wasalways first with Annie and she showed her love bymaking quilts for her children, grandchildren, andfor future generations.

“Aliens”, a rag quilt, and “Chicks and

Chec

ks” were among the fun, newer quilt designs.“Alaska”, “Hawaiian Flowers” and “Quilt

-Across-

America” told the story of the quilters’ vacations.

Each square in the Alaska quilt represents a facetof life in Alaska: a salmon, a moose, trees, etc.(

Merrilee

even took her sewing machine with her!)Amish quilts were represented by theDouble Wedding Ring and Bars patterns. Sixminiature quilts demonstrated other Amishpatterns.